The traitlines should be zeal, radiance and virtues. If you have HoT, then go for the current meta dragonhunter build. If you have PoF go for the core guardian build until you can obtain a condition equip for the firebrand. If you have HoT and PoF then I would recommend going for the dragonhunter build. Metabattle is a good starting point with In Guild Wars 2 your character doesn't get [substantially] better the more hours you play, you do. ^ Being in BiS gear means close to nothing if you don't know how to play the game because of the active-combat system. Just discover the game. There is absolutely no reason to rush to 80lv. 5. Kraven_the_one. • 2 yr. ago. The most fun way of leveling in GW2 is not leveling. Just stop chasing the next heart, event, etc. Look at the world instead of minimap. Go where you please and have fun exploring the world and various systems. Try new weapons, skills and schnerbst. • 1 yr. ago. I would suggest something like this for core mesmer: BUILD. Long range, big dmg, lots of tanking done by your clones. one of the safest glass canon builds i've played so far. Also transitions seamlessly into a phantasm chrono if you want to take it to the next level. Nightcrawl-EUW. Now I've just reached Level 80 and am halfway through my level 80 Personal Story. But now I've hit a roadblock. So I've been playing on the main Tyria map and my experience bar has gotten full. As far as I can work out, I can now transfer this bar to Mastery Points. HOWEVER I can't start training Masteries unless I play one of the expansions. 573. Posted December 8, 2018. Now you can play, all of Guild Wars 2. The answer is everything. All new content is effectively designed for level 80. Fractals and Raids are level 80. All open world content level adjusts you to the appropriate level, so that is still open to you. So literally everything is open to you. Exotic back items are actually not that easy or cheap to come by. Your best approach is probably to go strait for ascended back items. If you have access to specific living world episodes from season 3, 4 or 5, it shouldn't be to difficult or long. The build works fairly easy. Most things just activate passive while you play. Just be sure, to dodge regularly, you'll get a lot of protection and extra dmg, if you keep up your resolution buff. Regular swapping between the legends is also highly recommended (basically on CD). Yes, after leveling with ToK and ofc the 80-boost, crafting is still the less time consuming way of leveling. You are gonna need to level ~3 professions tho, since they give you roughly 7 levels each IF I'm not mistaken If he's missing 1 proffesion at 500 he'd like to get there anyway, it's doable with 2. Then you need 30 level 20 minimum characters, 15 level 30s, 10 level 50's, 6 level 60's and 3 level 80's (although only 2 need to do the last few steps and only 1 needs to do Victory or Death). I was responding to the OP, who specifically pointed out they had no interest in redoing the story. B7p6Nv.